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Archive for February, 2013

The winners for the 85th Academy Awards were announced yesterday, February 24, 2013, at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, California, by Seth MacFarlane, host of the 85th annual Academy Awards. Life of Pi won four awards (the most for the evening), including Best Director for Ang Lee, and Argo won three awards, including Best Picture. Les Misérables also won three awards; Django Unchained, Lincoln and Skyfall won two awards each. Other winners were Silver Linings Playbook, Brave, Zero Dark Thirty, Anna Karenina, Searching for Sugar Man, Inocente, Curfew, and Paperman with one award. Jennifer Lawrence won the Best Actress award for her role in Silver Linings Playbook, and proved the second youngest winner in the category. Daniel Day-Lewis won a third Best Actor award (the most for any actor) for portraying the titular character in Lincoln.

Films receiving the most nominations were “Lincoln” with twelve, followed by “Life of Pi” with eleven. Skyfall and Zero Dark Thirty tied for the Academy Award in Best Sound Editing. This was only the sixth tie vote in the history of the Academy that resulted in two awards being presented. See all nominees, with the winners in red boldface:

Best Foreign Language FilmAmour (Austria) in French – Michael Haneke
Kon-Tiki (Norway) in English and Norwegian – Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg
No (Chile) in Spanish – Pablo Larraín
A Royal Affair (Denmark) in Danish – Nikolaj Arcel
War Witch (Canada) in French – Kim Nguyen

Best Documentary – Feature
5 Broken Cameras – Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi
The Gatekeepers
How to Survive a Plague
The Invisible WarSearching for Sugar Man